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patch fox
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a color-phase of the red fox, Vulpes fulva, marked with a cross over the shoulders.
See: cross-fox
Quotations
1861
Should he be a RED [fox], his skin is worth half a dozen geese; if a PATCH he is worth a cow; if a BLACK PATCH, Or a SILVER GREY, he is worth a horse; and if a real BLACK, a horse and sleigh and harness, whip and all, is not too high an estimate.
1942
The most common of these [variations] is the "cross" or "patch" fox, which is yellow with a dark cross or patch across the shoulders.